ENROLLED
ACT No. 143
2019 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 99
BY REPRESENTATIVE FALCONER AND SENATORS ALARIO, ALLAIN, APPEL,
BARROW, BOUDREAUX, CLAITOR, COLOMB, DONAHUE, GATTI,
HENSGENS, HEWITT, JOHNS, LONG, MARTINY, MIZELL, PRICE, GARY
SMITH, TARVER, AND THOMPSON
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 15:587.3, relative to criminal identification and information; to
3 provide relative to volunteers and employees in youth-serving institutions or
4 organizations; to provide relative to coaches of youth athletes; to require the release
5 of investigative records for head coaches of youth athletes; to require fingerprinting
6 and background checks for the head coaches; to provide relative to the procedures
7 and costs for criminal history records checks; to provide relative to training
8 programs; and to provide for related matters.
9 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
10 Section 1. R.S. 15:587.3 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
11 ยง587.3. Volunteers and employees in youth-serving institutions or organizations;
12 other youth coaches; criminal background information
13 A.(1) A religious, charitable, scientific, educational, athletic, or youth-
14 serving institution or organization may require any person, who applies to work with
15 children as a volunteer or as a paid employee, to do one or more of the following:
16 (1)(a) Agree to the release of all investigative records to such religious,
17 charitable, scientific, educational, athletic, or youth-service institution or
18 organization for examination for the purpose of verifying the accuracy of criminal
19 violation information contained on an application to work for such institution or
20 organization.
21 (2)(b) Supply fingerprint samples and submit to a criminal history records
22 check to be conducted by the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Criminal
23 Identification and Information.
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1 (2) Any head coach of youth athletes in an organized sports or recreational
2 athletic contest, not as part of a religious, charitable, scientific, educational, athletic,
3 or youth-serving institution or organization to which Paragraph (1) of this Subsection
4 would apply and is not a parent of the child, legal guardian of the child, or is
5 otherwise not a family member of the child, shall do the following:
6 (a) Agree to release all investigative records for examination for the purpose
7 of verifying the accuracy of criminal violation information.
8 (b) Supply fingerprint samples and submit to a criminal history records
9 check to be conducted by the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and
10 Information.
11 (c) Make available criminal history record information.
12 (3)B. Attend In addition to Subsection A, any volunteer, paid employee, or
13 head coach may be required to attend a comprehensive youth protection training
14 program which includes adult training on recognition, disclosure, reporting, and
15 prevention of abuse and submit to character, employment, education, and reference
16 checks.
17 B.C. Any person who is requested to comply with the requirements set forth
18 in Subsection A, and refuses to do so, shall be prohibited from working with children
19 as a volunteer or as a paid employee.
20 D. When a criminal history records check is requested pursuant to
21 Subsection A of this Section, the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and
22 Information shall provide the requestor with the state criminal history record
23 information of the individual subject to the inquiry. In addition, the bureau shall
24 forward the fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal
25 history records check and shall provide the requestor with the national criminal
26 history record information of the individual subject to the inquiry.
27 E.(1) The costs of providing the information required under this Section shall
28 be charged by the bureau, as specified in R.S. 15:587(B), to the individual subject
29 to the inquiry for furnishing information contained in the bureau's criminal history
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1 and identification files, including any additional costs of providing the national
2 criminal history records check which pertains to the individual.
3 (2) Notwithstanding Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, for paid employees of
4 a youth-serving institution or organization, the costs of providing the information
5 required under this Section shall be charged by the bureau, as specified in R.S.
6 15:587(B), to the institution or organization.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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